If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim. Rudyard Kipling More Quotes by Rudyard Kipling More Quotes From Rudyard Kipling They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue. Rudyard Kipling kissing may men Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain! Rudyard Kipling stars eye children On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay! Rudyard Kipling thunder dawn play A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Rudyard Kipling towers mind men If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Rudyard Kipling Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. Rudyard Kipling Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again Rudyard Kipling When you move with kings don't forget the common touch Rudyard Kipling Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun. Rudyard Kipling
